Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov declared that his country stands “shoulder to shoulder” with Venezuela, while urging Donald Trump’s administration to stop and avoid a major conflict. The senior official’s statements were reviewed by the portal RT.
Riabkov pointed out that Moscow is following with great “concern” the situation arising due to the US military deployment in the Caribbean Sea, and the recent statements by Trump, who announced that he would soon begin carrying out attacks on land.
Likewise, the senior Russian diplomat indicated that the White House line seeks to consolidate an “unquestionable dominance” of the United States in the region, something he described as the “trademark” of Donald Trump’s administration.
He recalled that Russia recently signed a strategic partnership and cooperation agreement with Venezuela.
“They support each other (Russia and Venezuela) on many international platforms.” “In this hour of testing we stand shoulder to shoulder with the leadership of Venezuela and we hope that the Trump Administration stops before a large-scale conflict, we urge it to do so,” he stated.
This Saturday, Trump reiterated that the United States will begin launching land attacks against suspected drug traffickers in the same way as it does at sea. “We are going to start the same process on the ground, because we know every route, every house, we know where they live, we know everything about them,” Trump declared at an event at the State Department’s Kennedy Center.
Step by step the escalation of aggression
Since August, Venezuela has been under threat from the United States, whose government maintains a deployment in the Caribbean Sea, in front of Venezuelan affairs.
US military officials are carrying out Operation Southern Spear with the official purpose of “eliminating narcoterrorists” from the Western Hemisphere and “protecting” the US “from the drugs that are killing” its citizens.
In this sense, “lethal operations” have been carried out that have caused the death of fishermen in the Caribbean and the Pacific, causing 80 people to be killed so far.
Reliable evidence has never been presented linking Venezuela to drug trafficking.
For their part, both the Venezuelan president and authorities of the National Executive have argued that the operations by the United States are to support a false narrative that Venezuela is a country of drug traffickers, when in reality, what they seek is to appropriate national resources.
